The Scientific Powerhouse of Dark Matter is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by General Superintendent with an iron fist, and renowned for its vat-grown people, unlimited-speed roads, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 25.834 billion Espers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Academy City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient scientific economy, worth an astonishing 10,449 trillion Academy City's Yen a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 404,483 Academy City's Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Laborers are building walls and making Wezeltonia pay for it, cruise ships arrive in their dozens to watch cruise missile tests, plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, and the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dark Matter's national animal is the Dark Matter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Irreligion.

Dark Matter is ranked 468^th in the world and 6^th in Europe for Smartest Citizens, with 347.84 quips per hour.